Carpmaster

That is gross, but I have heard worse of black bears....

nchawkeye

Anybody else like brains and eggs???

huntnma

i've only collected samples froma few heads and i have never ever seen such a thing and i pray that i don't, lol.......we did some the other day at work and i am happy to say that they weregrub free, lol......that is sooooooooooo nasty....

bigtim6656

might be type of fly that is in one area if the country

eldeguello

This may be "normal", but I have cut the antlers off many a deer's head, some cut from behind the antlers all the way to the tip of the nose for an exposed skull mounting, and I have never seen anything like these wormscrawling around inside a deer's skull. How could a deersurvive with worms eating up their brains??

HuntingBry

I have seen videos of bot fly larva that get into people and they can get to be 1-2 inches long. It's pretty gross. They only feed on flesh, so I don't think they are eating the brains of the deer. It's wierd to think that we are food for something smaller than us. Yuk![:'(]

zrexpilot

These maggots are not in the brain, they live in the nasal passage, right near the throat. Cut a deers head off at the first vertabrae and you will find them living right there. I do a lot of euro mounts and find them in 99% of the deer. I dont know if its more common down here in the south or not.
Pretty freaky, I also learned of this years ago hunting a WMA, and the biologist also cut the head off to get the brain stem out for testing, he showed us these maggots as well.They fall out eventually and become a fly.

TSR6

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